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Here’s the Dissertation.com version of my doctoral thesis.
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I was part of a family, and now I’m not. They meant something to me, that family. (p.232)
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…everything we see, hear, feel, and think is [in] constant flux and change. Nothing endures. We long for permanence and as a result we suffer, for we find none. (p. 46)
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Since death is certain, and the time of death is uncertain – what’s the most important thing right now? -
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See pp. 51-105 for the chapter “Hazing and Alcohol in a College Fraternity” by yours truly.
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People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands – literally thousands – of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don’t know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they’ve been listening to sad songs longer than they’ve been living the unhappy lives. (p. 25)
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One upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering. (p.11)
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Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. (p. 47)
There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. (p. 57)
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Yes, a book by my brother, a former small-town mayor and expert on local politics, who resides in Rice Lake, WI.
Visit his website by clicking here.
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I can’t look at them. This whole time they’ve known. They’ve known. Everyone’s known. She is never going to be the woman I need her to be. She’ll never change. (p. 234) -
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Perhaps depression can best be described as emotional pain that forces itself on us against our will, and then breaks free of its externals…[g]rief is depression in proportion to circumstance; depression is grief out of proportion to circumstance. (p. 16)
If you feel bad without reason most of the time, you’re depressed. If you feel bad most of the time with reason, you’re also depressed, though changing the reasons may be a better way forward than leaving circumstance alone and attacking the depression. (p. 20)
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Place a beehive on my grave
and let the honey soak through.
When I’m dead and gone,
that’s what I want from you.
The streets of heaven are gold and sunny,
but I’ll stick with my plot and a pot of honey.
Place a beehive on my grave
and let the honey soak through. (p. 83) -
If you don’t get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don’t want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can’t hold on to it forever. Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change, free of pain, free of obligations of life and death. But change is a law, and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. (p. 51)
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